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Windows script host (cscript) allows you to execute js files in addition to vbscript (vbs). This is particularly useful in extending the functionality of batch files. This can be u…

Without RTTI how would you make it portable? From the thread it is clear he was also concerned about portability.

From my experience the general perception about software engineers seems to be that we are some sort of fancy accountants, number crunching all day. Although basic Math skills is v…

He will start using email again.

There is more to this than what meets the eye. First most of these bureaucrats are underpaid by the government. They can hardly make ends meet, especially so when they have to feed…

You are missing the fact that when people create wealth it need not be in the form money or that it cannot be converted to money in the near future.

This has been posted before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=886900 .

They have had one too many braindead misfeatures already in .Net e.g., Linq-to-SQL. C# and F# have come long pretty good, kudos to them on that. Integrating Azure with their develo…

LTE, this is 2009. CDMA was better purely in terms of technology but really who wants to be at the mercy of Qualcomm.

I use Wells Fargo, Business Account. When I started the account I asked them to waive the account minimum fee and that's the only way they were going to get my business and they wa…

That's what I meant. Unless it gets approved as a standard it's not going to be widespread.

Isn't it premature to call it a Standard? Apple may have pushed Intel to work on it but getting it adopted as a standard is gonna take time.

I use Grooveshark and I agree that the autoplay is very naive compared to Pandora. A better autoplay algorithm will definitely help but it is hard give you feedback unless we know …

heyprudhvi, seems like you are new here please read the guidelines. I had to flag this. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Actually they will be helping Microsoft run their Office Online App on IE6 which is not on the list of supported browsers but Safari is, which is webkit based. So they may end up g…

Actually I have used them for business cards. You don't have to get the glossy cards, we didn't. We didn't use any of their templates but created our own and the results were good.…

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You can sync your iPod, unless it is iPod touch or an iPhone, using Winamp ( http://blog.winamp.com/2009/03/11/how-to-manage-music-in-ipo... )

With shipping calculation there is usually two options you can use FedEx or UPS provided standard size boxes or you can use your own boxes. The latter option is what you are lookin…